Recaps

Luke Snow won the tournament after defeating Barristan Selmy in the final, and King Robert rewarded him by making him the stepson of Eddard Stark and changing his surname to Stark. The announcement left Cersei furious and wondering why Robert was elevating Luke.

• Arys Oakheart forfeited his semifinal against Gary, drawing the crowd's anger toward Gary.
• Barristan Selmy urged Gary to follow the knightly code, and Gary warned that taking the bout seriously could kill him.
• Gary seized Barristan's lance and struck him from his horse with a blow to the helmet, leaving him unconscious but alive.
• King Robert declared Luke Snow the tournament champion and presented him with a wreath of white roses.
• King Robert announced that Luke would become Eddard Stark's stepson and take the surname Stark, angering Cersei.

Gary rejected King Robert’s apparent attempt to honor Myrcella with the Laurel Crown and instead crowned a confident noble girl. When Robert challenged Gary over Eddard’s claim that he was a wizard, Gary publicly demonstrated his ice magic and gave Myrcella an Ice Rose as an apology.

• Robert urged Gary to give the Laurel Crown to Myrcella, but Gary offered it to a beautiful girl in a green dress instead.
• The girl accepted the crown, and Gary placed it on her head while Robert returned to his seat in anger and Myrcella cried.
• Robert stopped Gary and questioned his rejection of Myrcella, then told him Eddard had called him the last Wizard in Westeros.
• Arya declared that Gary could use ice magic, and Gary froze Robert’s Golden Goblet and shaped its wine into an Ice Rose.
• Gary gave the Ice Rose to Myrcella as an apology, while Cersei silently asked Tyrion whether he had known about Gary’s magic.

Gary proved his magic to King Robert by creating a huge, lifelike ice statue of the king, earning a promise of a letter of recommendation to enter and leave the Citadel. Robert ordered the statue taken to King's Landing, while Gary left with Arya and planned to collect his letter the next day.

• King Robert challenged Gary to make a large display of magic and promised him a letter of recommendation if he proved he was a wizard.
• Gary used water from five barrels to shape a giant ice statue, while Tyrion warned Margaery not to use the wizard as her shield.
• Gary finished the statue after the servants brought more water, and Robert ordered the City Watch to take it to Cobbler's Square.
• Gary asked Robert for the promised letter, declined to stay at the Red Keep, and left hand in hand with Arya.
• Robert told Gary to come to the Red Keep the next day, while the royal children regretted missing their chance to speak with him.

Gary said goodbye to Arya as Ser Kesso took her and the northern soldiers back to Winterfell, then reunited with Tyrion in King's Landing. Meanwhile, Renly confronted Margaery about her plans, and Gary prepared to seek the king's recommendation at the Red Keep.

• Gary refused Ser Kesso's offer to return to Winterfell and gave him Ice, asking him to explain to Eddard and Robb that he had no desire to become lord.
• Ser Kesso told Gary that the northern party would leave the next morning, and Gary arranged for him to carry gifts back to Winterfell.
• Gary and Arya parted at the city gates, with Arya reluctantly riding north after Gary promised to visit within four years.
• Renly confronted Margaery about returning to Highgarden and warned her to stay away from the Wizard, while Margaery challenged his claim over him.
• Gary returned to Tyrion's residence, where Tyrion joked about brothels, and Gary said he needed to visit the Red Keep to ask the king for a letter of recommendation.

Gary secured King Robert’s recommendation to travel to the Citadel and set out for Oldtown, hoping to investigate the green stone and the curse he claimed it caused. Margaery Tyrell intercepted his carriage and insisted on riding with him to Highgarden.

• Gary told Tyrion that he sought a god connected to a green stone, and Tyrion revealed that presenting a wreath to Margaery had been taken as a marriage agreement.
• Gary refused to marry Margaery and told Tyrion he would leave King's Landing as soon as he received his recommendation.
• King Robert gave Gary the letter and assigned two knights to accompany him, ostensibly for protection.
• Tyrion provided Gary with a carriage and Gold Dragons, then explained that he hoped their friendship might help him in the future.
• As Gary's carriage left King's Landing, Margaery stopped it and demanded a ride to Highgarden.

Gary and Margaery traveled south toward the Citadel, where he planned to ask about a mysterious green stone. Their conversation revealed their opposing views on marriage and love, leaving Margaery unsettled by Gary’s intention to leave Westeros and search for the stone himself.

• A Baratheon knight asked whether he should remove Margaery from the carriage, but Gary told him to let her stay and the party continued south along the Roseroad.
• Margaery asked why Gary was going to the Citadel, and he said he wanted to ask the maesters about a powerful green stone that might not exist in Westeros.
• Margaery leaned close to Gary, who accidentally saw down her neckline; she teased him about being a virgin and explained that she had no idea what a bra was.
• Gary rejected the idea that he was worthy of Margaery and asked whether she liked him, while she said she needed him and might fall in love with him later.
• Gary told Margaery he hoped to spend his life with someone he loved and planned to travel the world after settling matters in Winterfell, but she would not abandon her family and power to join him.
• Margaery argued that power could help him search for the stone, and Gary admitted that having power and her might make him give up the search.

Gary and Margaery discussed his pursuit of the Godstone and traveled toward Highgarden, where they camped for the night. After two knights were attacked, Gary recognized the approaching Shadowcat, and a white figure landed on his shoulder.

• Gary told Margaery that finding the Godstone was his life's pursuit, while privately hoping to learn its powers and return to Earth.
• At their camp beside the Roseroad, Margaery asked about Dark Sister, and Gary said the nobles who recognized it were either his friends or dead.
• Gary teased Margaery about the hardships of traveling with him, and she said she could not give up her house and loved ones for freedom.
• Two knights of House Baratheon plotted to kill Gary and Margaery if he joined another house, but an unseen animal attacked them.
• Gary drew Dark Sister and protected Margaery as she lit and threw a makeshift torch toward the darkness.
• Gary recognized the bloodied, injured Shadowcat, which sat without attacking, just before a white figure landed on his shoulder.

Bingling revealed that it had ordered the shadowcat to kill the knights who threatened Gary, and Margaery mistook Bingling for a dragon and Gary for a Targaryen heir. Margaery imagined helping him claim the Iron Throne, while Gary discouraged her plans and left her believing she might marry him someday; the group then settled down to rest.

• Bingling told Gary that it had ordered the shadowcat to kill the two knights because they intended to kill him.
• Margaery saw Bingling, concluded Gary was a Targaryen descendant, and excitedly proposed gathering allies to put him on the Iron Throne.
• Gary challenged Margaery's assumptions about rebellion and House Tyrell's support, prompting her to recognize the obstacles to her plan.
• Gary told Margaery to keep his secret and claimed he might be ready to negotiate with House Tyrell after his dragon grew, and she agreed to wait for him.
• Bingling assured Gary that it had tamed the shadowcat and taught it to recognize his scent.
• Gary stroked the shadowcat, and he, Margaery, Bingling, and the animal settled by the campfire to sleep.

Gary and Margaery traveled by ship from Tumbleton to Highgarden, where Margaery revealed that she had brought him there to pursue their betrothal and her ambitions. The chapter ended with Gary learning that Margaery had treated his crown at the king’s tournament as a marriage proposal and planned to use their connection to advance House Tyrell.

• After the coachman fled, Gary drove Margaery toward Tumbleton while she recovered from a cold and the Shadowcat ran alongside the carriage.
• Margaery showed House Bulwer’s soldiers a token of House Tyrell, and they offered her and Gary a ship to Highgarden; she refused to delay and insisted they depart.
• On the voyage, Margaery’s cold cleared, but Gary and the Shadowcat became seasick, and Margaery personally cared for them.
• Seven days later, Gary and Margaery arrived at Highgarden, where Margaery told him she had no urgent business beyond bringing him there quickly.
• Margaery explained that accepting Gary’s crown and asking him to place it on her had signified acceptance of his proposal, and she hoped marriage to him would help her become queen.

Luke Stark and Margaery reached Highgarden, where Lord Mace accused Luke of being a fraud and ordered him arrested. Luke fought back with Dark Sister and blood-forged weapons, leaving the surviving riders terrified as the clash continued.

• The dockside crowd fled from the Shadowcat, while House Bulwer's boatmen offered to carry Luke Stark's luggage and he refused.
• Margaery and Luke were met by Highgarden riders, who lowered their bows when they recognized her and escorted them toward the castle.
• Lord Mace surrounded the pair at Highgarden's gate, accused Luke of stealing a servant of House Baratheon, and declared him a fraud.
• Lord Mace ordered the riders to seize Luke, and Luke hurled Dark Sister through one rider and into the stone gate.
• The Shadowcat dragged down a horse and rider while Luke killed another rider with an ice blade and escaped the encirclement.
• Luke shaped blood into a bow and arrows, killed three more riders, and formed blood blades as the remaining riders recoiled in terror.

Gary defeated the Tyrell cavalry at Highgarden and used the moat’s water to raise an enormous Ice Rose that blocked the gate. He spared Lord Mace, accepted Margaery’s warhorse as compensation, and was asked to give her the Shadowcat as a token of their betrothal.

• Gary killed the charging cavalrymen, then subdued the final four after Lord Mace ordered them to attack.
• As reinforcements arrived, Gary froze the moat into a giant Ice Rose that destroyed the bridge and blocked Highgarden’s gate.
• Gary spared Lord Mace after Margaery warned him of the danger of war, and Margaery stopped her father from threatening him again.
• Margaery offered Gary Lord Mace’s warhorse, and he accepted it as compensation from House Tyrell.
• Margaery asked Gary for a betrothal token and chose the Shadowcat.

Gary arranged for Margaery to become the Shadowcat’s master, while Bingling secretly struck a bargain with her for food and help with Gary’s plans. Margaery agreed to feed the dragon and hoped to win Gary’s affection before her family could decide her future.

• Gary asked Bingling to give Margaery the Shadowcat, and Bingling agreed after he promised to spend his purse on meat.
• Gary told Margaery that the Ice Rose would melt within hours and left Highgarden, while Margaery wondered whether he would return to see her.
• More than ten days later, Margaery followed the Shadowcat into the woods and discovered Bingling could write; Bingling asked when she would help Gary get the crown.
• Bingling asked Margaery for food to help it grow, and Margaery promised daily meat and agreed to keep the dragon hidden with the Shadowcat.
• Margaery secretly brought three pigs into the woods, rejecting the idea of betraying Bingling because she wanted to control her own future and feared Gary might choose another woman.

Margaery told Olenna that she loved Luke Stark and planned to wait five years for him to seek her hand, while Olenna remained skeptical. In Oldtown, Gary reached the Citadel with the king’s letter of recommendation and was introduced to Archmaester Theobald, the current Steward.

• Residents near Highgarden avoided Tiger Forest, where Margaery kept her docile but dangerous tiger.
• Margaery persuaded Olenna that she loved Luke Stark and said he had asked her to wait five years before seeking her hand.
• Olenna worried that Margaery would suffer in the North and questioned whether Luke could truly wait that long.
• Gary arrived in Oldtown after nearly a month and went to the Citadel with the king’s letter of recommendation.
• A maester guided Gary through the Citadel to Archmaester Theobald, whom he introduced as the Steward for that year.

Luke Stark pressured the Citadel into searching its vast library for clues about a powerful Green Crystal, using King Robert’s authority to secure the scholars’ cooperation. The search began with a six-month deadline, and Gary promised that whoever found a useful clue might travel with him to meet the king.

• Theobald told Luke Stark that King Robert had ordered the Citadel to open its books to him but could not make him a maester outside the Citadel’s traditions.
• Luke Stark demanded that the Citadel’s maesters search their books for clues, threatening to insist on his appointment as a maester if they refused.
• Theobald summoned the Citadel’s scholars and announced that King Robert had commanded them to help Luke Stark.
• Luke Stark described the Green Crystal and its immense energy, then invoked the king’s authority to silence scholars who questioned the search.
• Theobald explained that searching nearly a million books would take six months, and Luke Stark accepted the deadline while dangling a possible trip to meet King Robert as a reward.

Gary left the Citadel after half a year of searching for clues about the Green Crystal and sailed toward Essos to investigate the ruins of Valyria. As he waited for the merchant fleet to depart, Varys arrived with a new assignment from King Robert.

• Gary dismissed most of the scholars’ gemstone leads but kept a possible Rhoynar connection and a rumor that Valyria had found a god’s sacred stone.
• Gary decided to search the ruins of Valyria and then seize Daenerys Targaryen’s three dragon eggs, and he booked passage on a merchant fleet bound for Volantis.
• Gary evaded the Baratheon knights and soldiers sent to bring him back to King’s Landing and boarded the ship without saying goodbye.
• Gary worried that Bingling had been missing for six months as he watched white ravens near the harbor.
• Varys joined Gary on the ship and announced that King Robert had sent him with a new assignment.

Varys forced Gary to sail to Pentos and threaten Jon Snow’s safety if he refused to assassinate the surviving Targaryen children. After months at sea, mercenaries tried to kill Gary, but he used ice magic to defeat them and took control of the ship, deciding to reach Pentos and retaliate.

• Varys delivered Robert’s order for Gary to kill the two surviving Targaryen children and threatened Jon Snow to ensure Gary accepted the mission.
• Gary agreed to sail to Pentos but warned Varys that he would kill him and his Little Birds if Jon were harmed.
• Three months into the voyage, mercenaries killed the captain and sailors, then confronted the seasick and weakened Gary.
• Gary froze the deck and sea, killed the lead mercenary and the others who had not offered useful skills, and spared six crewmen who could help sail the ship.
• Gary ordered the survivors to clean the deck and continue to Pentos, where he intended to return the mistreatment he had suffered.

Gary escaped Varys’s trap by landing south of Pentos and traveled with two mercenaries to a small town, where he planned to recover before continuing. He stayed wary of the mercenaries and kept his identity concealed as they waited for horses.

• Gary ordered the ship to land before Pentos, then used ice to cross from the grounded vessel to shore with two mercenaries after they killed the other four.
• Gary paid the two mercenaries and promised a chance at knighthood if they helped him reach King’s Landing.
• After four days of travel, Gary and the mercenaries reached a small town south of Pentos, where he booked rooms and planned to recuperate while waiting to buy horses.
• Sergei told Gary that Gabo had gone to visit a trader who brought enslaved women to town, and Gary warned Sergei not to reveal their identities.
• Sergei offered to find women for Gary, but Gary declined, and Sergei ran downstairs before Gary could stop him.

Gary was summoned to a slave owner’s compound after Sergei and Gabo were captured, and learned that Sergei had killed a man trying to rescue a Westerosi woman from his hometown. When the slave owner ordered his soldiers to attack, Gary freed the two mercenaries and prepared to fight.

• Gary left the tavern to train but was stopped by armed men who escorted him to a wealthy merchant’s compound.
• Gary found Sergei and Gabo injured and bound, while the slave owner demanded forty-five Gold Dragons for damages and a dead subordinate.
• Sergei admitted he had killed a man while trying to rescue a woman from his hometown, whom the slave owner had tortured; he suspected another captive might be from the North.
• The slave owner ordered his soldiers to keep Gary and the mercenaries alive, and Gary drew Dark Sister and cut Sergei and Gabo’s chains.

Gary and his companions defeated a slave owner’s soldiers and found three captive women, one of whom believed Gary was a divine messenger. When her prayer connected her suffering to him, a silver-haired, purple-eyed dragon girl appeared and called her Gary’s first believer.

• Gary killed the slave owner’s fifty-odd soldiers, though he and Gabo suffered wounds, and the group captured the slave owner.
• Sergei led Gary and Gabo to the cages, where he rescued Cindy, his runaway bride, while they found another woman dead and a third dying from horrific injuries.
• The dying woman mistook Gary for a messenger of the Seven, and Gary invented a Supreme God to give her hope.
• The woman prayed for Gary’s protection and offered her soul, sending a silvery thread into his chest and making him feel part of her pain.
• Time and space froze, and a silver-haired, purple-eyed girl with dragon horns and wings appeared behind Gary, asking whether he had found his first believer.

Gary met the Mother of Dragons, who explained that the Primal Stone’s power could grow through human believers and offered to help him use it. Though he agreed to gather believers and accepted her spell to heal his first believer, Gary sealed the Mother of Dragons inside his consciousness because he did not trust her.

• The Mother of Dragons read the disabled woman’s memories and recognized the Primal Stone in Gary’s body.
• She told Gary that human believers would help him control the Primal Stone, and that he could eventually use it to create a physical body for a god.
• Gary learned that the Mother of Dragons’s body lay in the Shadow Lands, but restoring it would expose her to the gods, so he agreed to gather believers instead.
• The Mother of Dragons enchanted Gary’s left hand to convert the Primal Stone’s power into life force, which could heal the disabled woman and regrow her limbs.
• Gary used the Primal Stone to seal the Mother of Dragons inside his consciousness because he still did not trust her.

Gary used his new healing magic to restore Tysha Sivifes, a dying captive, and made her his first believer. Tysha gained ice magic through her connection to him and killed the slave owner, while Gary’s left hand remained numb from the healing.

• Gary healed his abdominal wound with the magic granted by the Primal Stone.
• Gary prayed over the dying Tysha, and crimson energy restored her injuries and severed limbs.
• Tysha pledged herself to the Supreme God, gained ice magic, and introduced herself to Gary as Tysha Sivifes.
• Gabo asked Gary to heal his back, but Gary told him that insincere prayers would not earn the god’s response.
• Gary considered why healing Tysha had caused mana overload and planned to recover before setting out for Pentos.
• Tysha froze dirty water into an ice spike and killed the slave owner who had held her captive.

Gary and his companions traveled toward Pentos with the slave master's gold while Gabo explained the city’s defenses and mercenaries. When a white dragon landed before them, Gary revealed that he planned to attack Pentos with its help.

• Tysha told Gary that a Westerlands noble had sold her into slavery, and Gary promised that she would one day have the power to judge cruel nobles.
• Gabo described Pentos as a wealthy city-state with only two or three thousand city watchmen, but warned that it could hire powerful mercenary companies.
• Gary declared that he did not need an army because he had a dragon.
• A dragon descended and landed in front of the travelers, frightening Gabo and the others.
• Gary handed Gabo his reins and went to approach the dragon alone.

Gary reunited with Bingling and revealed that he planned to attack Pentos to obtain three Dragon Eggs. After preparing in the city, he began his assault during a downpour, leaving Bingling to set the harbor ablaze while Gabo prepared to seize the magisters’ estates.

• Gary reunited with Bingling, which had grown while staying secretly in Highgarden, and told it that Pentos held three Dragon Eggs.
• Gary used his red magic on Bingling, increasing its lifespan, then sent it to hide outside Pentos and await his signal.
• After arriving in Pentos, Gary had Gabo investigate Illyrio’s estate and recruit mercenaries while they waited for the right moment.
• When freezing rain began falling, Gary ordered Gabo to seize the other magisters’ estates and reserved Illyrio’s estate for himself.
• Bingling attacked Pentos’s harbor with dragonfire, setting merchant ships ablaze and plunging the city into chaos.

Gary attacked Illyrio’s residence and forced him to reveal the hidden Dragon Eggs. After testing the eggs with fire, Gary claimed to be Luke Stark, the posthumous son of Prince Rhaegar and Lyanna Stark, and asked Illyrio to swear allegiance to him.

• Gary and Tysha fought their way through Illyrio’s guards and entered his room.
• Gary cut off Illyrio’s little finger and forced him to lead them to the Dragon Eggs.
• Illyrio showed Gary three Dragon Eggs hidden in a cellar beneath his armory.
• Gary placed the eggs in a brazier, but Illyrio said previous attempts to awaken them had failed.
• Gary revealed his Valyrian steel sword and claimed to be Luke Stark, asking Illyrio to swear allegiance.

Gary secured Illyrio’s outward pledge and took the dragon eggs, then confronted Viserys and Daenerys in Pentos. He offered Viserys control of the city in exchange for Daenerys, but left them one night to answer after threatening her.

• Illyrio pledged allegiance to Gary and promised to conceal his identity, while Gary took the three dragon eggs and told Illyrio to keep Pentos stable.
• Illyrio left, and Gary explained to Tysha that he expected him to alert an old friend before entering the building where Viserys and Daenerys were staying.
• Gary and Tysha found Viserys beating Daenerys, and Gary stopped Tysha from rushing in to intervene.
• Gary offered Viserys Pentos as a base for reclaiming the Iron Throne in exchange for Daenerys, and Viserys tried to demand the dragon as well.
• Gary threatened to take Daenerys and described a brutal fate for her, then gave Viserys and Daenerys until the next day to accept his offer.